ACPN 2010 Conference February 26-28 Las Vegas, NV AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (ACPN) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION ABSTRACTS ARE DUE January 1, 2010 The American College of Professional Neuropsychology (ACPN) will be holding its Second Annual Meeting in Las Vegas , Nevada, February 26-28, 2010. This call for abstracts submission will detail instructions for preparing abstracts and also how to submit abstracts for review by ACPN. All abstracts must be related to the professional practice of neuropsychology and all abstracts which have been accepted by the ACPN Abstract Review Committee will be published in a future issue of APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, the ACPN Official Journal. All abstract presentations will be in poster sessions. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING ABSTRACTS FOR THE ACPN MEETING There are three categories of abstract submissions: Original Research, Literature Review and Theoretical/Commentary. Original Research abstracts will include all prospective and retrospective professional neuropsychology studies that involve testing a hypothesis by collecting and analyzing empirical data and include case studies of single subjects. Literature Review abstracts should provide a scholarly discussion of a specific professional neuropsychology topic via a review of contemporary research literature. Theoretical/Commentary abstracts are about any topic related to professional neuropsychology including (but not limited to) public policy, trends in neuropsychology, assessment and treatment strategies, brain mechanisms of action and methodological issues. All categories of abstracts are structured with required sections and all must include Objectives and Conclusions headings. The objectives section begins the abstract and should be a clear statement of questions addressed by the abstract. The conclusions section details what was proved by the abstract and the implications for professional neuropsychology. Original Research abstracts also include sections on Methods and Results, in addition to objectives and conclusions sections. The methods section describes the subjects (diagnoses and demographic characteristics), instruments (neuropsychological test measures) and the procedure (research design) used in the study. The results section should describe the statistical analyses and the levels of statistical significance and/or effect sizes obtained. Case studies may not require statistical analyses and descriptive comments would be appropriate in the results section. Literature Review abstracts also include sections on data selection and data analysis. The data selection should include the criteria for selection of data sources and how data was extracted. The data analysis section should include how data was analyzed and the results of the literature review in addition to objectives and conclusions sections. Theoretical/Commentary abstracts should include a discussion section in addition to objectives and conclusions sections. The discussion section should describe the theoretical issue/comment related to (but not limited to) public policy, trends in neuropsychology, assessment and treatment strategies, brain mechanisms of action and methodological issues, which is the topic of the abstract. Abstracts of the Original Research and Literature Review categories are based on empirical data and all data that forms the foundation of these types of abstracts should have been collected and analyzed prior to submission of the abstract. Author(s) information should be listed two spaces above the abstract. Author(s) information must include the name, highest educational degree (Ph.D., Psy.D. Ed.D., M.D., MA, MS, BA, BS, etc.), E-mail address, complete snail mailing address, office telephone number, office fax number, academic/business affiliation(s) of the person submitting the abstract. The same information is required of all co-authors, who should be listed in order of authorship contribution. The submitting author is responsible for obtaining permission from all co-authors to be listed as a co-author prior to submission of the abstract. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words (including the Abstract title which should be centered above the body of the Abstract). The author(s) information is not counted toward the abstract limit of 300 words. Individuals should not be the first author on more than three abstracts but there is no limit on the number of abstracts which can be submitted for presentation at the ACPN Meeting as a co-author. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS FOR THE ACPN MEETING All abstracts must be prepared in Microsoft Word and submitted as an attachment to an E-mail message. The requirement for a single word processing format is necessitated by the logistics of rapid publishing of all accepted abstracts in APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, the Official Journal of ACPN. The E-mail message should assert specifically that in the case of Original Research and Literature Review abstracts that all data described in the abstract have been collected prior to submission of the abstract and were collected in an ethical manner, the abstract had not previously been presented at a regional, national or international meeting and that all co-author(s) have reviewed the abstract and agreed to be listed as co-author(s). Theoretical/Commentary abstracts must be submitted with an E-mail message that should assert specifically that the abstract had not previously been presented at a regional, national or international meeting and that all co-author(s) have reviewed the abstract and agreed to be listed as co-author(s). Person submitting abstracts do not need to be members of ACPN. Abstracts must be submitted via the internet by January 1, 2010 to drmachorton@hotmail.com. The subject line of all E-mail messages with attached abstracts submissions should start with "ACPN MEETING ABSTRACT SUBMISSION" and then list the title of your abstract in the subject line. ABSTRACTS ARE DUE January 1, 2010 INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT REVIEW PROCEDURES All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the ACPN Abstracts Review Committee. Two or more committee members will review each abstract based on the criteria of relevance to professional neuropsychology, methodological adequacy, conceptual clarity and significance of the findings for professional neuropsychology. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent by February 1st 2010 by an E-mail message to the E-mail address of author who submitted the abstract. The submitting author is responsible for informing any co-authors regarding acceptance or non-acceptance of the submitted abstract. All decisions of the ACPN Abstract Review Committee are final. CONTACT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION If there are questions or requests please contact Arthur MacNeill Horton, Jr., Ed.D, ABPP, ABN, Chair, ACPN Abstracts Review Committee, at the E-mail address listed above or 5903 Lone Oak Drive, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814 or Office Telephone Number (410) 823-6408, ext. 20 or Home Telephone Number (301) 530-3417.